Carol Meyers The Contributions Of Archaeology And The Bible

The Kolbrin Bible is a 3,600-year-old manuscript that speaks about many things. Among these things, it speaks about the creation of humans. It also narrates stories about ancient civilizations that existed on Earth before the arrival of Adam and Eve. This bible is one of the most debated ancient texts. The reason behind the interest in this manuscript is the mentioned existence of advanced ancient cultures that is not recorded in the written history that we know.

Since these ancient people did not work with writing, this made an obstacle for the archaeologists; who had to create artifacts to help with their studies. They did all they could do, except ignore what can’t be ignored: ancient Americans’ past events.

Everyone has a set of values and something that represents their values. One could call that representation of values their own personal tabernacle. My personal tabernacle is the woods. Ever since I was a child I would spend large quantities of time in the woods, eventually I came to view the woods as my personal tabernacle.

This shows that civilization started in Africa. As much as Europeans try and take everything from us Africans and rewrite our history as far as the Christopher Columbus era, it does not matter because artifacts shows that everything was started in Africa. We use ways of knowing to prove that between the bones found in Africa there was civilization in ancient Africa. “Experiential Kin is when you grow up with someone, even though your not blood family that’s your cousin. You don’t have aunts or uncles like in America. You have the nucleus family then the extended family.” This is the reason villages were so important in the uprising of Africa.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been described by numerous scholars and biblical commentators as one of the most important finds in archeological history. (Top 10 Most Important Historical Finds) The find occurred in 1947 when a Bedouin shepherd came across sealed jars in a cave containing leather scrolls. The scrolls which were subsequently brought to an antiques dealer in Bethlehem were purchased by a Syrian Orthodox Archbishop named Mar (Athanasius) Samuel. ( HYPERLINK "http://bible.org/byauthor/2658/Patrick%20Zukeran" Zukeran) He recognized that the scrolls were in Hebrew and were possibly very ancient. These scrolls were then examined by a prominent Middle East archaeologist, Dr. William Albright, and were confirmed as originating between the first and second century B.C. ( HYPERLINK "http://bible.org/byauthor/2658/Patrick%20Zukeran" Zukeran)

Oswalt, in Chapter six, discusses the Bible and History and he defines history as “History is about human beings” and further states, “A history is a narrative of a series of events revolving about human beings acting in time and space. Existing for human self-knowledge, it purports to be an accurate account of all significant elements for the eventual outcome.” But with R.G. Collingwood understanding, he defined history is a science. Further in the chapter, Oswalt provides six factors. As Oswalt states: one must believe that human beings are free and responsible and that causes and effects are linked and traceable in time and space, the researcher must believe that falsification of data is inimical to understanding, that human experience

The second definition of piety comes the notion, “what is dear to the gods is pious, what is

2. Heinrich Schliemann and Arthur Evans are iconic archaeologists who discovered ancient artifacts that contains knowledge about ancient civilizations. The archaeologists had same ambition to discover Mediterranean treasure, but they had different techniques of obtaining them resulting them to be distinctive towards scholars and how their actions made contribution to the archaeology. Heinrich Schliemann did successful obtain valuable artifacts but, he earned them recklessly where he demolished most of the surroundings from ancient ruins without considering to restore the historical remnants. According to Penelope J.E Davies’s “Schliemann’s excavation technique destructive and considered Schliemann himself little more than a treasure hunter.

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Perhaps, if you carefully inspect details of geology, archeologists can find select facts that line up with the ancient text. However, so little evidence exists that if one removed the Bible from the picture, then science would not point to a message such as the Bible presents. Anyone can find some obscure evidence to support a position, and those who uphold the Word of God's infallibility have done exactly that. They have found scraps of evidence that line up with what they seek to prove, but not so much that the evidence by itself overwhelmingly points to the Bible. Therefore, science may offer a tiny bit of support towards the Bible; however, it does not offer enough to prove the Bible, which negates the argument that science proves the Scriptures. With that argument out of the way, the remaining defenses for absolute Biblical truth rely on circular

The impact of literary studies, which increasingly questioned the relationship of the complex of biblical narratives from Genesis to 2 Kings to history, has undermined confidence in the construction of vast periods of Israelite history. The result has been the loss of the Patriarchal and Conquest periods from many historical accounts and an increasingly fierce debate over the nature of the settlement and early monarchic periods. Ironically, therefore, the very search for the world of the Bible which informed many of these revisionist studies of the history of Israel has resulted in the removal of several centuries previously attributed to that world. The conviction that the Hebrew Bible was the product of the Persian and Hellenistic periods has underpinned this radical shift. R. P. Carroll states baldly what many biblical scholars have been coming to accept for a long time: 'The Hebrew Bible is the product of the second Temple period. This ought to be an uncontentious statement, but I imagine some unreconstructed biblical scholars may wish to contest it in favour of a First Temple period origin for the Bible with some appendices from the time of the second Temple. While I can see that there may be something to be said for the view that the Bible contains fragments of material from before the collapse of the temple in the sixth century, the claim that the Bible as we

According to The Society for American Archaeology, the definition of Archaeology is, “to obtain a chronology of the past, a sequence of events and dates that, in a sense, is a backward extension of history.” The study of ancient civilizations and archaeology is rather ambiguous due to the primitive nature of the time period. With little imagery and even less textual evidence, professionals in the field must work diligently when studying their subjects. Naturally, archaeologists cannot see or communicate with those whom they are studying, so they must be extraordinarily meticulous when analyzing past cultures. This relates to all aspects of the ancient world including; foods, raw materials, artifacts, agriculture, art work and pottery. All

Biblical archaeology is defined as a sect of archeological studies that refers to the study of lands found in the Bible and their history (biblicalarchaeology.org). The firsthand goal of Biblical archaeology is to prove the authority of scripture through providing concrete evidence that the Bible lines up with accepted geography and history. The Jerusalem Siege Tower shows the accuracy of what was described as historical events in the Bible. The Pool of Siloam is found in John 9, and proves that the places that Jesus spoke of while performing miracles really existed, and still do. Finally, the Dead Sea Scrolls validate the authenticity of the scripture that we read today. Through the analysis of the excavation of the Jerusalem Siege Tower,

The Bible has multiple authors but the story remains interconnected and woven together to create a Biblical timeline of times in history that textbooks could not contain without the help of the Bible. There is no question that the Bible contains accurate details vital not only to the credibility of itself and the Christian faith, but to the history it contains as well. Free mentions the late professor at the University of Chicago in the studies of the Old Testament, Ira Maurice Price’s words “Old Testament history has become incandescent with the wondrous archaeological discoveries in Bible lands. Almost every period of that old Book has been flooded with new light out of the ruins of the past” (qtd in Free, 16). Though the Bible is known to be religious in most every sense, many historians also use the Bible as a timeline in order to determine the dates of other events that have happened in our world that are not clear in other records. Hans Debel, author of “The Multilingual Textual History of the Hebrew Bible” agrees with Free and Price. Debel’s research focuses on the different languages the Hebrew translation of the Bible has undergone, but Debel mentions scrolls found in the Dead

When initially reading about Hesiod’s Pandora and the Bible’s Eve, you may think the two are quite different stories, but with further analysis it is clear that the two share common themes of women being companions to men, evils introduced because of women, punishment coming from a god due to specific actions, and hardship remaining forever with humanity as the consequence. The need to want to explain negative phenomena such as sin, plagues, natural disasters, and many other difficult circumstances is rooted in both of these stories as they give explanations to why the human race struggles, placing blame on a singular action, allowing us to rationalize why we suffer. Because of this I would argue that both stories are examples of etiological myths used to explain human suffering.